elastic / elastic/fleet-server
fleet-server performance improvements
- Dominant language
- Go
- Stars
- 113
- Forks
- 117
- Avg merge
- 1d 16h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 112
Description
In order to better assist scaling efforts we should audit the fleet-server codebase for any performance improvements we can make.
The performance improvements we should seek are:
- Reduce calls to elasticsearch where possible (merging two calls with a painless script is preferred over two separate ES updates)
- Reduce allocations in order to reduce heap size and reduce the work that the garbage collector has to do.
- Ensure struct alignment (easy to add automation to ensure this works)
Acceptance criteria:
- All changes must have benchmarks associated with them.
- Benchmarks should show a reduction in one of the tracked catagories
- Benchmark comparisons between the baseline and improvements - with `-memprofile` must be available for analysis
Focus will be directed towards high-use packages first.
Contributor guide
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named; begin by identifying the high-use fleet-server packages and establishing baseline benchmarks. Done means each performance change has benchmark comparisons, including -memprofile data, and demonstrates reduced Elasticsearch calls, allocations, or struct-padding waste.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- backend, performance
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100